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I tried out the new Djinn with new (to me) Ashenzari in Trunk and promptly escaped with the Orb! https://crawl.kelbi.org/crawl/morgue/Shargos/morgue-Shargos-20211030-194214.txt It felt interesting and fun. I like the constraint of working with an innate, unfolding spell set. My one concern from a ga...

I also find the current Elyvilon too boring to worship, so I would be interested to try this.

Purification + positional healing over time for 2-3 piety seems over-strong.

I could use a new "How to Fedhas" discussion, if folks would care to share. I've read the rework description, started playing with the abilities. Ballistomycete felt really powerful, I got overconfident, and then YASD just from Lair being Lair. I worry that Fed makes me great at killing th...

Basic movement speed is useful, but overrated in crawl. We have enough data to be very suspect that simple move speed is a major predictor of how likely a player is to win. Centaurs do well in winrate, but felids and spriggans are average-to-below in that stat. Nagas are above average. Chei finishe...

One issue is how to scale the amount of rot. A level 1 spell like pain would have to rot less than 1hp at XL1. But then you would want the most expensive spells like Necromutation / Haunt to rot a significant amount. Pain's cost would be represented by dangercolor Grey, analogous to an amount of co...

I like this idea. There'd be some advantaged to merging Necro -Hp with rot, amplifying some of the rot already in the dungeon, and making both recover with xp. (I think) Rot can be cured with consumables, which to me seems fine (for Rot). -MaxHP being removed by the same consumables that remove Rot...

This is a small suggestion, but I couldn't find a recent thread about Necromancy in which to post it. :-) An overall check on the power of Necromancy (while endeavoring to preserve its fun value) is suggested in https://github.com/crawl/crawl/wiki/0.25-Development-and-Release-Plan. The linked plan p...

I was okay with the Labyrinth because it was a break from the norm. I like the Gauntlet better, I did one recently and it required a strict judgment call that I couldn't cheese (eg by luring a dangerous enemy away from loot I wanted). If Labyrinth came back to exist as well as Gauntlet I think it wo...

"Oh, I have rings? I should try them on." --me, every game.

I like the 0.5 sec pause suggestion. Forcing a -more- message would suck.

Seed tournament consists of a series of micro-tournaments. A different seed opens on the hour and closes X minutes later. You have to start the seed within the window in order to compete in that micro-tournament. X is chosen to be small enough to limit the value of spectation / retries / offline stu...

lansh wrote:but then you get some nasty enemy on the orbrun that could've been escaped from more easily with a scroll of fog

Had'em to spare.

Checked for other ways to get out? Unwield weapon of distortion to get banished? Learn Passwall or Lee's Rapid Deconstruction even with high fail? Translocation miscasts?

Near the beginning of an Orb run last night I reached a cluster of three upstairs. I read a couple Scrolls of Fog so that I could clear my "a monster is in view" condition and do a G-D-1 to leverage DCSS's "pick the most efficient path" algorithm. I've died twice on Orb runs befo...

Change Airstrike to scale with the amount of air (unoccupied tiles) next to the target. Favors an in-the-open playstyle rather than the same old retreat-to-killhole. Monster Airstrike could be changed in the same way -- makes you want to get into cover rather than be caught out in the clear, very Ai...

Effect: Every monster in LOS performs N attack(s) on a neighbor, if it has one. More fit for Skald theme/gameplay, not efficient for a nuker. Allow spell attacks on the player if in range?

Manuals just shouldn't work for Gnolls. Their racial doesn't allow for the focused study that a manual requires. Having manuals exist seems worthwhile to me. They add an aspect of game-to-game variety -- moreso than potions of XP. Since not all skills are smoothly beneficial at all increments, not a...

I like #2. Synergy with undead allies, miasma, and other attrition tactics for a non-nuke spell school. Adjust level if needed to make it worth casting.

Right now if I get BVC on a character the rest of his kit becomes superfluous for a long time.

I support the proposal. It's hard to get behind the name though. "Durable, innate magic user, weapon disliker" makes me think: Dryad. I understand that the developers want to move the game away from "western" or LOTR references, Yokkaso are basically dryads from another culture....

Just got a +3 Lajatang of pain off Agnes. Necromancy is at 7.7. Spectral Weapon in regular use. I expect it's my best weapon, but for survivability it sure is a shame not to be using the +1 buckler of reflection. Other weapons: +5 morningstar "Axzukk" {flame, Str+2 Dex+6}, which I had been...

duvessa wrote:Tiamat is the top unique killer in Zot, doesn't mean she needs a nerf.

Tiamat is the only killer-of-players unique in Zot.

[15:04] <mattlistener> !Lg * recent !boring place=Zot s=killer killer=uniq
[15:04] <Sequell> 43 games for * (recent !boring place=Zot killer=uniq): 43x Tiamat

Now what I'm interested to figure out is is a way to compare the deadliness of uniques. eg "In what % of games in which the player sees <unique>, the player is killed by them." Is there a sequell query that would do that? Or some other comparative-deadliness measure that isn't distorted by...

I checked in on the "deadliest monster per floor" data from this post and found that not much has changed in 14 months. Mainly that Spark Wasps have now ceded their deadliest badge both to Emperor Scorpions on Spider:4, and to Caustic Shrikes on Depths:5, and that Orbs of Fire fell below D...

I support the proposal. It's hard to get behind the name though. "Durable, innate magic user, weapon disliker" makes me think: Dryad.

Rast wrote:
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!locateall shargos <@Postquell> No games for shargos (god=ru).

Thanks Rast.

I've found the Ru-worshipper I was looking for in a local game. A lvl-22 SpVM of Ru who was kicking ass but elected to escape the dungeon rather than die of starvation.

My games played on crawl.jorgrun.rocks show up on http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/best-players-total-score.html I can also see my morgue folder via: https://crawl.jorgrun.rocks/morgue/ Is it possible you played with a diff username on CJO ...or maybe on a diff server? Confident of the username an...

I'm trying to figure out if I've won with Ru. I remember a late-game character but not what happened to them. I've played online on akrasiac and crawl.jorgrun.rocks. The former is easy to rule out via http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/shargos.html. However the outside-game morgue-viewing URL...

Well, this may hinge on my understanding of corpse and zombie duration. If I have zero need for more bottled blood right now and currently have sufficient zombies to explore safely, isn't it reasonable to leave some corpses where they lay rather than starting their zombie-lifetime right now, with no...

Any help?

I'm playing a Vampire who just got access to Animate Dead. Naturally I want to stop automatically bottling blood from corpses upon auto-explore while Bloodless. How do I do that?

I have "auto_butcher = false" in the rc and I thought that would do it, but it did not.

20% "It's probably just a wandering monster, but I'll go check it out."

Overwhelmed by the welcoming committee at the start of Spider and killed.

I should have done a Deliver Corpses / Simulacrum and hope for a high roll on the number made, that might have pulled me through.

Thanks. Only allies so far are simulacra. I should remember to do Corpse Delivery more often.

Have trained polearms, cleared Shoals, no Demon Trident. What's the next-best pain brand target for a 3-rune game? 1dNecromancy isn't SO massive that the base weapon damage doesn't matter at all...

Huh... add this to the list of assets:

the +2 hand axe of Truncation {pain, Int+2}

In my case, I'm opening with a weapon while at full health (so effectively a +5 spear -- Vampiric only triggers with missing HP), and then switching to casting spells.

Done. Polearms have synergy with Confusion too, had forgotten about that. Still seems odd to me that a character who already has 9 in Necromancy and plans for lots more, and is killing things via a combination of Necromancy damage spells and hitting them, doesn't see a Necromancy enhancer staff as a...

I'm trying a melee Necromancer of Kiku build. Main plan is to kill stuff with "Pain/Vampiric Draining/Regeneration/Agony/Dispel Undead" (credit: cerebovssquire) until I can Pain brand a weapon. I don't have access to any undead ally spells yet anyway. This will be a 3-4 rune game. I've jus...

Bear in mind that god gifts are not meant to be guaranteed-useful, but merely "odds swung in your favor" to be useful. You can have a run of bad luck with Sif, Oka, etc too.

It's an innovative idea, good creative thinking. If someone implemented this I'd happily give it a try. If there's 90 spells and 10 are the best leading to mage playthroughs being too samish, then maybe that's a sign that those 10 spells need a bit of a nerf and the other 80 need a bit of a buff. Be...

How about by a quite-reasonable measure of development activity?

(No aspersions to devs meant at all -- a slowdown would be expected if DCSS approached its consensus ideal self.)

Is development slowing down? Asymptotically approaching something? Will DCSS become 1.0 in our lifetime?

Asymmetric. Monster summons block you, but your summons don't block them if they want to move toward you rather than attack their incoming damage source. Remove XP penalty for damage from summons.

Because Crawl's difficulty is so frontloaded Depends on the player. Crawl's difficulty is frontloaded for highly experienced players, who after the early game have typically found a way to climb above the power curve, and have mid- and late-game threat assessment mastered. For other players, gods t...

Wouldn't it make more sense to put a restriction on the amulet slot itself, compared to having a unique "don't be incentivized to boringly swap this" mechanic on most amulets?

eg: amulets cannot be swapped with an enemy in view. Or, amulets take 2 auts to remove and put on.

Fingolfin wrote:Achilles had no divine power, his invulnerability came from him being dipped in the Styx by Thetis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thetis#Thetis_as_goddess

It's hard to let go the idea that Demigods are *supposed* to have divine-origin abilities that separate them from mortals. Ancient: Achilles' invulnerability, Hercules' strength. Recent: Diana (Wonder Woman), Maui (Moana). That said, I certainly hope this proposal becomes a race. If the current Demi...

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Does Crawl need two races with the "not allowed to worship a god" special? One with no divine abilities named "Demigod" and one with a bunch of divine abilities named something that won't be confused with "Demigod"? I think the new proposal is great and capitalizes on t...

Seems strictly better to me. Take the scenario "I've retreated to a corridor but there's just one square between us now and I can't even". Lugonu: roll vs. MR. Zin: Hope the key square you need is walled, get out of LOS before it expires. (A danger at low Invo, iirc.) Cellus: Threat neutra...

*** Uplift Create a wall on the targeted square. Comparable to Banishment in power, but without checking MR and without the possibility of encountering the walled-off entity in the Abyss. If you can't put a wall between the too-powerful-to-fight enemy and the rest of the dungeon, you can wall it in...

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